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Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2021

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.
Place Score Title Type Authors
1 101 Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 NONFICTION Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
2 85 Writers Workshop of Horror 2 NONFICTION Michael Knost
3 64 Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color NONFICTION Joy Sanchez-Taylor
4 57 The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture NONFICTION Mark Bould
5 53 The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination NONFICTION Philip Ball
6 50 Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction NONFICTION F. T. Barbini
7 50 The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess' Stardust NONFICTION Charles Vess
8 36 Never Say You Can't Survive NONFICTION Charlie Jane Anders
9 35 Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters NONFICTION Kevin Wetmore
10 35 Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present NONFICTION Hadas Elber-Aviram
11 35 Shirley Jackson: A Companion NONFICTION Kristopher Woofter
12 35 Roger Zelazny NONFICTION F. Brett Cox
13 35 NONFICTION
14 35 Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades NONFICTION Anna McFarlane
15 35 Le livre des préfaces NONFICTION
Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein
16 35 The Conjuring NONFICTION Kevin Wetmore
17 35 Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema NONFICTION Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
18 35 The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic NONFICTION Clive Bloom
19 35 James Graham Ballard et le cauchemar consumériste NONFICTION Thierry Paquot
20 35 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels NONFICTION Danel Olson
21 35 A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas NONFICTION Peter Grybauskas
22 35 Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages NONFICTION Holly Ordway
23 35 Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence NONFICTION Paul S. Fiddes
24 35 Apparitions: Les archives de la France hantée NONFICTION Philippe Baudouin
25 35 Les pouvoirs de l'enchantement NONFICTION Anne Besson
26 35 Apocalypse show, quand l'Amérique s'effondre NONFICTION Anne-Lise Melquiond
27 35 The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend NONFICTION Daniel Ogden
28 30 Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age NONFICTION Valerie Estelle Frankel
29 28 Gothic: An Illustrated History NONFICTION Roger Luckhurst
30 27 Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw NONFICTION Hua Li
31 25 The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World NONFICTION Claire Tomalin
32 24 After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin NONFICTION Thomas Connolly
33 24 Monstrous Mythologies NONFICTION Michael Bukowski
34 23 You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice NONFICTION Angela Slatter
35 22 Forgotten Gods: The Art of Yoann Lossel NONFICTION Yoann Lossel
36 21 Kay Nielsen: An Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection NONFICTION Meghan Melvin and Kay Nielsen
37 21 Pocket Workshop: Essays on Living as a Writer NONFICTION M. Huw Evans and Tod McCoy
38 20 "More About Writing" and Other Essays NONFICTION Samuel R. Delany
39 19 John Howe's Ultimate Fantasy Art Academy NONFICTION John Howe
40 19 All of the Marvels NONFICTION Douglas Wolk
41 18 Infected by Art: Volume 9 NONFICTION Bill Cox and Jon Schindehette and Todd Spoor
42 17 Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings NONFICTION Joe Sanders
43 1 Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 1 NONFICTION Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese
44 1 Angoisse: Exploration d'une collection - volume 2 NONFICTION Philippe Gontier and Laurent Mantese
45 1 L'altération des mondes: Version de Philip K. Dick NONFICTION David Lapoujade
46 1 Ursula K. Le Guin: De l'autre côté des mots NONFICTION David Meulemans
47 1 True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee NONFICTION Abraham Riesman
48 1 Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism NONFICTION Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
49 1 The Complete Debarkle: 1880 to 2020 NONFICTION Camestros Felapton
50 1 L'épopée littéraire des frères Boex: Bibliographie de J.-H. Rosny aîné et J.-H. Rosny jeune NONFICTION Fabrice Mundzik
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